Diamond Idioms and Phrases - Heart In Diamond
What are Some Popular Diamond Phrases and Quotes?
The most popular are a diamond in the rough, diamonds are a girl's best friend and diamonds are forever.
Due to their unique properties and stunning beauty, diamonds have captivated the public imagination– and infiltrated our language with many well-used phrases and quotes. Here are a few of the most famous diamond-related sayings:
- A diamond in the rough: This refers to a decent person who lacks traditional manners, style, or social skills.
- Diamonds are a girl’s best friend: a phrase first written for Broadway and later popularized to an enormous extent through none other than Marilyn Monroe in the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
- A diamond is forever. One of the most effective marketing campaigns for diamonds centered around this phrase, which signified the indestructibility of diamonds and the eternal nature of true love.
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Other Popular Diamond Quotes
- “All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.” -Jose Marti
- “A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.” -Leonardo da Vinci
- “Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.” -Victor Hugo
- “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” -Confucius
- “This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.” -Richard Burton
- “Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.” -Thomas Browne